Illustration : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The illustration is a take on the 1950 book, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S Lewis.

The illustration is a take on the 1950 book, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S Lewis. In this modern reimagining, what greets the children on opening the wardrobe shutter is not a magical world, but the reality of ‘unnatural’ sex. For the ‘perpetrators’ of this, exposure is horrific and humiliating, given how society functions.

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Maitri Dore, an architect by profession always had a childhood penchant for cartooning and illustrating. She grew up in Bombay and moved to Bangalore for her first job, where she currently practises mud architecture. Apart from drawing lines, she illustrates for the Chennai-based children’s magazine, Gokulam.

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